US-occupied Iraq is now ranked second among the world’s failed states

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=61147

Last year US-occupied Iraq was ranked fourth in the Failed States Index produced by America’s Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace. Now, in the 2007 Failed States Index released on Monday, Iraq has emerged as the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan, giving the lie to the Bush administration’s oft-repeated assertion that conditions in Iraq are improving.

In fact, conditions in US-occupied Iraq continue to worsen and the country is now in a state of chaos, with the death toll from bomb explosions and other attacks averaging running about 100 people a day. According to the respected British medical journal The Lancet, more than 600,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of US bombing and missile strikes since March 2003.

The index said Iraq suffered a third straight year of deterioration in 2006 with diminished results across a range of social, political and military indicators.

The annual Failed States Index ranked 177 countries according to 12 social, economic, political and military indicators based on data from thousands of publicly available sources.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. It's only because the populace went broke buying flowers to fling at their "liberators".

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